Sharp County record., 1887-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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nouuces his intention to lecture in the
United States after his Canadian visit
A COURT at Leipsic has found an lndlct-
| ment against parties connected Win tne
Schnaebeles affair which is SAID 10 De
virtual arrangement of the French Gov
| ernment.
STRONG efforts are being made by the
limited States Government to introduce
the parcels post interchange system with
all the other American governments
RICHARD RAEBIGER, Of Shelby County,
H., who was recently released nom
| German prison on request from the Amer
| icau Government, has arrived home.
THE Southern Baptist convention al
Louisville adjourned on the 10th, to meet
In Richmond, Va, next year.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has We
toed the Constitutional Convention bill
SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN J. SHAW,
Sixth United States infantry, has been
dropped from the rolls Of the army for
desertion.
THE tenth annual convention Of the Ma
tional Association of Lumber Dealers as
sembled in st. Louis on the llth.
BREvET MAJoR-GENERAL HENRY +.
CLARKE, United States army, retired,
died in Washington on the 10th, IN the
sixty-seventh year OF his age.
The Comptroller of the Currency has ap-
pointed Thomas NJ. D. Tate as Nation al
bank examiner for North Carolina and
Virginia Mr. Tate is a member OF the
North Carolina Legislature.
GENERAL BoULANGER's mobilization bill
causes much uneasiness at Berlin. The
North German Gazette says it is of much
greater importance than appears at first
| sight.
AARON F. FLETCHER STEVENS died at his
house in Nashua, n H., on the 10th, from
kidney difficulty, arising from wounds re-
| ceiyed in battle before Petersburg.
OK the evening of the 9th, at Fort Glib
son, L T., two soldiers-Joe Adams and j..
f. Glidden-were drowned in the Grand
river. They were out seining for fish and
| got caught in swift current and were
swept under Only one Of the bodies has
been recovered.
| THE Maryland Masonic centennial be-
gan at Baltimore on the 1lth.
THE Missouri Legislature convened IN
extra session on the 1lth.
BoTH houses of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature passed the High License bill on the
l1th.
JAMES W. HYATT, of Connecticut, has
been appointed United States Treasurer,
vice Jord an, resigned.
MoNrROsE won the Kentucky Derby
race at Louisville on the 11th, Jim Gore
second.
GREAT excitement prevailed in London
on the 18th on an unfounded report that
Mr.. Parnell was dead.
REV. DR.. TIMOTHY c. PIrKIN, an emf
nent Episcopalian divine, died on the It'll
at Detroit, Mich.
THE Illinois House of Representatives,
on the 1lth, killed the proposed constitu
tional convention.
EDITOR O'BRIEN arrived in Canada OF
the 11th and opened his campaign II
Mont against Lord Lausdowne.
The Pacific Railway Investigation Com
mission has called on Senator Mcpherson
to unbosom himself.
SECRETARY BAYARD sent telegram Il
Minister Manning q at the Cly of Mexico OF
the 11th'asking of Mexico mercy for tht
condemned Nogales officers.
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Occidental is reported killed at sea by
sailor, whom he assaulted with belay
ing pin, and was in return stabbed to tn
heart.
1T is understood that President and Mrs
Cleveland will spend two months or more
at Oak View before going on their early
autumn jaunts.
CONTINENTAL Europe is much exercised
over the proposed German increase o
tariff duties on grain.
HAGGERTY, the second Panhandle
brakeman tried at Pittsburgh, Pa, fo
rCbbing freight cars, was convicted on th'
18th. j. F. Wright, another brakeman
entered plea of guilty and was remand
ed for sentence.
FIRE at New Boston, N. H., on the 1lth
destroyed the town house, one church
two chapels, one store and shop and sever
dwellings. Loss, $4,000; insurance, SIS,
OOO
FIRE on the 11th cons umed Shaw Bros
tannery at Grand Lake Stream Me-, also
saw-mill, dry-house, roll loft, an immense
building that covered the vats, and O,OO-
sides of leather; loss, si25,0Oo.
BISMARCK will go to Varzin at Whitsun
tide, as he feels assured of the passage OF
the Spirit bill, the section Of the Centre
promising to support the measure, be
sides all Nationals and Conservatives
CALVIN GRAVES, who was convicted a.
Calas, Me-, for shooting and killing
Game-W ardeus Niles and Hill, was sen
fenced, on the 11th, to imprisonm ent at
hard labor for life. The verdict was muir
der in the second degree,
THE international horticultural exhibit
tion at Dresden has proved splendid and
success sful show.
No official information has reached the
Department of State respecting the re
ported refusal of the Halifax authorities
to permit an American schooner to pro
cure provisions. 1t IS thought that the
report must be inaccurate
MARTIN BOUT, while plowing on his farm
near Michigan City, Ind, on the l1th, ex-
ploded dynamite bomb which had been
placed there by unknown parties His
arm was blown of and he was otherwise
terribly mangled. He will hardly re
| cover.
The Secretary OF the Interior has di-
rected the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to appraise aud dispose OF by
public auction the land Of the abandoned
military reservation Of Fort Brooke, Fla,
except the tracts of 100 acres settled upon
prior to January l, 1854
J. B. FRUcHIER, an American citizen
who left San Francisco last October tC
visit France, was seized on his arrival